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A partial scholarship toward books and tuition will be granted to qualifying highschool juniors in the name of Sponsors who donated $2,500 or more!!!
BATTLE OF SPARTA is going on it’s seventh year. Each year we grow bigger and better. In 2005, we started with three teams, one referee and a neighborhood park. Six years later, Battle of Sparta was held in one of New York City’s premiere sports facilities: Aviator Sports Complex. This January, we aim to bring our tournament to Tilden High School where elementary and junior high school kids will be the focus; to promote college in a light that weighs less on their shoulders than the bookbags they carry daily.
There is a gap between highschool underclassmen and college freshmen. Students between the ages of 15 and 17 have no idea what they’d like to do with their lives as far a careers go.
In 2007, New York City was number one in highschool dropouts with over 43,000.followed by Los Angeles with more than 42,000. The goal is to show highschool students that there are other reasons to stay in school other than because “mommy said so.”
Through fraternities and sororities, this basketball-related program is one of many ways to give back to minority students and show them school can be fun too, particularly college.
For the past six years, Battle of Sparta has been held in lesser neighborhoods in the borough of Brooklyn because it’s easily accessible to all ages; except this past summer. We brought it to a better facility and a better community because the goal is to promote achievement. It was time to graduate from the parks & rec. centers to give kids the experience of enjoying a nicer place.
Closing the gap and increasing the number of highschool graduates through fraternity and sorority influence and involvement in less fortunate neighborhoods is our way of giving back.
There are over 1 million active Historically Black Fraternity & Sorority members in America who through their own community service programs give back. Our goal is to make Battle of Sparta so huge, students will be able to leave there saying, “I want to be like ‘John Doe’ the Sigma, because...” and the only way a young man can become a Sigma is to graduate highschool and get into college. He then has to achieve and maintain a GPA of over 2.5 and 81% of college undergraduate students with a gpa of 2.5 and better graduate.
Basketball is the forefront to the deeper goal which is not only attending college, but graduating! The former NBA players to the left have all attended college, joined their perspective Organizations and went on to become professionals.
